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> a public square I must be out of touch or have a dead imagination but I have no clue what this means/what this looks like hypothetically.
by MuffinFlavored 4y ago
> a public square
I must be out of touch or have a dead imagination but I have no clue what this means/what this looks like hypothetically.
- baandang 4y agoHundreds of thousands of people screaming at each other. It really needs a better model because the idea of scaling up the town square is just a terrible idea.
- gardenfelder 4y agoRobin Dunbar must be laughing now...
- BulgarianIdiot 4y agoHow about... a recursive network of medium-sized public squares.
- adamrezich 4y agoit's the Section 230 platform/publisher conundrum, which itself is kind of just a moral-positioning smokescreen for "we want advertisers to buy ads on our website and advertisers don't want their ads to appear alongside objectionable content".
- JakeTheAndroid 4y agoAnd I am again forced to ask this silly question, but what are you referencing in regards to Section 230? There is no such delineation that is made as part of Section 230[0] and there is no legal definition for being a platform. Thusly there is no conundrum here. This is a talking point that got beat dead in 2020 and I am shocked that it still has any life on HackerNews. It's not only moral positioning, it's a fundamental misunderstanding of what makes someone a publisher and what is actually covered as part of Section 230. [0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/publisher-or-platform-it-doesnt-matter https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/publisher-or-platform-...
- adamrezich 4y agoall true, but the conundrum remains, especially as there's been talks to rejigger S230. but again, it's all a smokescreen for creating advertiser-friendly websites.